Videopoems

Purple Lipstick

Purple Lipstick is a meditative first person narrative intended to address our faith in the myths surrounding intimacy and conjugality. A juxtaposition of the wife’s disembodied voice with the poem’s vivid, absurdist language conveys her isolation while invoking an excruciating tension.

Purple Lipstick is not an exposé or a documentary, but rather a potent rendering of the insidious nature of domestic violence, a visceral collage of an emotional maelstrom.

TFT: 6 minutes

Director: Heather Haley
Director of Photography: Shawn Chappelle
Editors: Shawn Chappelle, Roderick Shoolbraid, Andrew Ranford
Score & Sound Design: Roderick Shoolbraid
Executive Producer: Josef Roehrl
Actors:
Alexandra Oliver-Basekic
Bazil Graham
Ripley Ferguson
Cairo Ferguson

A mother and child hide behind a tree in the dark, in Purple Lipstick by Heather Haley
Purple Lipstick
Full Video - Hi Res 19.6MB


Purple Lipstick
Full Video - Low Res 3.8MB

Dying for the Pleasure

Heather Haley's videopoem, Dying For the Pleasure, premiered at Pacific Cinémathèque in 2003. This year the film was screened at the International ArtExpo in Milan, Italy.

It was also shown at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Kalingrad, Russia and at Illume: An Alchemy of Text and Image on September 17th at the Gene Siskel Film Center on North State Street in Chicago's Loop district.

It is presented here in Quicktime format. The full frame version is available for public broadcast.

Writer: Heather Haley
Actress: Dena Ashbaugh
Exec. Producer: Shawn Angelski
Director: Katrin Bowen
Presented by Bowen Arrow Productions and ByAnyMediumNecessary.com


Dying for the Pleasure
Excerpt - 1.3MB


Dying for the Pleasure
Full Video - 8.7MB